Winning Quotes

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Winning isn't always championships.

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.

'What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

Winning excuses everything.

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

There is winning and there is misery.